Haridas wrote:^^^ The words spoken like a General (or movie director): questions, opinions and list of directives ....

Albeit 99.99% of us are arm-chair generals of an army of arm-chair soilders & workers, with empty pocketed stake holders. Just time-pass in front of an idiot box called a Web browser..

Frustrated middle aged males with too much time on hands.

Haridasji, unfortunately poor arm chair soldiers, keyboard ninjas that we are, we cannot do anything more.The questions come from our quest to more then what is known as open source info or about progress of the programs which are not shared in the open forums, till the programs reach a certain level of maturity.The opinions and directives are basically just our jingo dreams of what we would like to see or happen. The above comments/opinion/directive also stem from the bitter experience that we have all had, where we are forced to go for imported systems, even when Indian solutions gaining traction.

For the Astra I have a distinct feeling that we will have to pony up scant resources to purchase Derby-ER, even though Astra MK-II is in development and we can live with the Derby, Astra combo for few months or a couple of years.

We have all seen this game played many a times before. The only difference now is that, as our programs start to progress, we are offered more and more cutting edge stuff by the foreign vendors.

must be plenty of paid moles too in the woods. recall the navy war room leak case . that man is now a UK GC holder and safe. rabinder singh ji must have changed his name and lives openly in virginia or such colonies of escaped agents.

During the investigation, 57 R&AW officers, including some from the top ranks, were found to be regularly sharing information with Rabinder Singh. A post-mortem in the case revealed that about two dozen officers had actively colluded with him in leaking the intelligence to Langley. No action was taken against the officers and they were quietly transferred to insignificant stations, to live with the burden of sharing top secret notes with the traitor, who sold them to the CIA.

^^^ how come they got off with a mere transfer enjoying full tenure ? A circus if so

Singha wrote:During the investigation, 57 R&AW officers, including some from the top ranks, were found to be regularly sharing information with Rabinder Singh. A post-mortem in the case revealed that about two dozen officers had actively colluded with him in leaking the intelligence to Langley. No action was taken against the officers and they were quietly transferred to insignificant stations, to live with the burden of sharing top secret notes with the traitor, who sold them to the CIA.

^^^ how come they got off with a mere transfer enjoying full tenure ? A circus if so

They were perhaps not aware that the info was being shared with Langley. The lapse was more of not adhering to standard operational procedure and not giving info to even a senior within RAW, if the same was not authorised to receive that on a regular basis.Perhaps they too were conned by the traitor into parting with useful info.

Singha wrote:must be plenty of paid moles too in the woods. recall the navy war room leak case . that man is now a UK GC holder and safe. rabinder singh ji must have changed his name and lives openly in virginia or such colonies of escaped agents.

We are way too lenient. These guys must either be clandestinely picked up or bumped off - to convey a message to the rest. Putin's Polonium approach!

Karan, In addition to R&D prowress, this no. of tests also indicate the increasing manufacturing capability on part of DRDO-BDL combine(can also be BEL in certain cases). For Agni series over 5 were tested. Which can only mean many more were produced. This is pretty good intensity. I doubt if more than 2-3 countries test so much.

Singha wrote:must be plenty of paid moles too in the woods. recall the navy war room leak case . that man is now a UK GC holder and safe. rabinder singh ji must have changed his name and lives openly in virginia or such colonies of escaped agents.

We are way too lenient. These guys must either be clandestinely picked up or bumped off - to convey a message to the rest. Putin's Polonium approach!

Once you have tested the accuracy at full range, you don’t need to re incur the logistical hassles and expense of redoing it at full range. You are speaking of sending multiple specialized ships to 5500 km range. That’s a week of sailing, one way and weather permitting.

We can do more subcritical testing and improve computer simulation. LIF is too expensive and there are conflicting stories in the public domain about its success. The idea of the last smiling Budha is to get enough information for further computer simulation. I always thought the large payload tonnage has to do with future MIRV/MARV requirements.